Care Partner Campaigner & with @CovidJusticeUK. A good indicator & true measure of our society can be found in how we treat our most vulnerable. #Dementia
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@covidinquiryuk Making promises to bereaved families carry significant emotional weight.Will the Inquiry deliver ?!💔
@paduffylaw @BJCSolicitors @NicolaBrook4 @CovidJusticeUK @Petalb34669133 – at Liscorran, Northern Ireland
🎙️Spoke on radio about the Inquiry’s clear stance. Essential care visits must be maintained.Guidance locked 000’s of 💔 families out. Primary legislation needed NOW. #UrsulasLaw is "seatbelt law" for care. Non-negotiable, whether you’re 18 yrs or 80+. @RobbieButlerMLA must act👇
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We now have folk filled with regret, guilt & torment because they couldn’t be with their loved ones when they passed, even though some MLAs that supported these harmful & horrific laws flouted them themselves. At a time of crisis we need more scrutiny in the Assembly not less.
Care Homes were left unregulated more so during the #pandemic. Families enforced to separate. Families not allowed to be families @paulfrewDUP 💔 Loved ones died alone. This must never be forgotten.
Hopeful #CarePartners will be placed on a legislative footing.
A woman whose mother died from Covid in a care home in 2021 says the facilities were effectively left “unregulated” during the pandemic.
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Our NHS is self-regulating, incapable of real change. An indiv duty of candour will not be a panacea for all the ills of the health service but, if effectively applied, it should provide more accountability and more protection for pts & staff.
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What is an Individual Duty of Candour and how will it affect me and my family?
In this short video I explain as simply as I can, please take time to listen to the video and please consider filling in the consultation with the link below in the next tweet. Please share! Thankyou
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Folks please remember my public consultation for my Private members bill on a statutory Individual Duty of Candour is currently live. Please see link
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Feeling proud of myself after graduating at @KingsInns this week.
It’s been a tough couple of years studying law. Would highly recommend. Thanks to all lecturers for their teaching & guidance & all the friends I’ve made along this journey.
Cheers to the memories ❤️
Martina Ferguson💜 retweeted
Pls RT and support your colleague @paulfrewDUP for the introduction of a statutory individual duty of candour.
Justice O'Hara called for this urgently in 2018 in his concluding findings of the UKs longest ever public inquiry.
@Joanne_Bunting @JBuckleyMLA @PamCameronDUP
‼️‼️‼️PAUL FREW MLA LAUNCHES PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON HIS PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL ON AN INDIVIDUAL DUTY OF CANDOUR IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING ‼️‼️‼️
Please find link to consultation below
forms.gle/qLbN5hoPcYvADuoz5
More information to follow in the coming weeks
Martina Ferguson💜 retweeted
‼️‼️‼️PAUL FREW MLA LAUNCHES PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON HIS PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL ON AN INDIVIDUAL DUTY OF CANDOUR IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING ‼️‼️‼️
Please find link to consultation below
forms.gle/qLbN5hoPcYvADuoz5
More information to follow in the coming weeks
I’m now questioning the efforts I’ve put in to @covidinquiryuk and those of the bereaved. The legal efforts to make things right. Inquiry’s decision recently to exclude bereaved corporate witnesses [Care Home module] can only be described as shameful. 🥲😡
@covidinquiryuk says ‘no one doubts the commitment and dedication that people like you and indeed the professor put into responding to the pandemic.’ Yes families do! Met @RobinSwann_MP ~8 wks into pandemic. 9 MONTHS later+ families still locked out Care Homes💔💔
@covidinquiryuk responds to Older People Commissioner May’24 Unbelievable response from Chair. Impact of those words on bereaved 😢💔Shameful!What did @COPNI do during pandemic?@paduffylaw @BJCSolicitors @CovidJusticeUK
Michael McBride: Chief Medical Officer’s role in procuring Covid deals is questioned | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
💜Reflection day across nations to remember loved ones who died during the pandemic.Sending love & hugs to those who didn’t get to say goodbye,enforced separation,weeks & months of visiting restrictions,unable to have wake/funeral,who are still grieving & hearts still broken💔🕊️
🚨NI Covid bereaved families accuse Stormont leaders of ‘ignoring’ them | North Wales Chronicle @paduffylaw @Petalb34669133 @CovidJusticeUK @covidinquiryuk northwaleschronicle.co.uk/ne…
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UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Members of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice gathered on Wednesday to express their concerns in relation to the implementation of recommendations made by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry’s first investigation into pandemic preparedness.
This is very important for the general public and needs to be investigated properly by @covidinquiryuk
Did Care Homes receive public money for under occupancy during the pandemic ?
UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Last week at the Module 6 Preliminary Hearing Brenda Campbell KC delivered submissions on behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice.
Rewatch the evidence here: youtu.be/9LmeZOAwSpY?feature…
#UKCovidInquiry